This is a joke.  After years of owning sony products, and having most of them break way too fast, I am always skeptical of anything else Sony.  However, Vita is a good piece of tech, and the only game specific platform with such graphics.  That means something to quite a bit of people.  I think we are seeing a 3ds all over again.  The lack of good games, and the constant rumors of a price cut, has a lot of future vita owners waiting until they can get more value from the system.  I think by this time next year, vita will have sold an admirable amount, be it a distant second place to 3DS.  

50 million in advertising. TV commericials, event adds, Hulu commercials, Adult Swim is targeted as well. 30 Rock just had Tracey Morgan playing on a Vita. Before launch Sony had large booth panels with at least a dozen Vita's set in in shopping malls across the country. Those Vita Hill social club events they had going on around launch.They  have demo booths in game retailers. You can probably still find some Vita giveaways if you look hard enough, like the recently announced Sly Cooper Theives in Time create a treasure for the game.

The Vita is a tough call for Sony --especially since it needs games to be a profit center rather than a loss leader, However, for the sake of third-party relations, it must go a couple of years before pulling the plug. And unless a system seller is found, that is probably what will happen.

Mike from Morgantown

Will this help Japan's numbers? If so, by how much? Hatsune Miku Vita set for August 30th.
http://andriasang.com/con0s3/miku_vita_date/

Should Nintendo have ditched the 3DS when sales plummeted after the initial launch due to the weak launch line up and subsequent lull of any significant titles prior to the holiday season?

Short answer: no.

As it's already been said, a price cut would go a long way in making the platform more consumer accessible as a game specific device, but would not make a significant difference in sales until the platform has the software/games to make the hardware worth purchasing at any price.

These early doom prediction threads were pretty old back in 2007.

not likely, Miku did just decent on the 3DS.
Just the average boost that a 100k seller gives.

^Very well said. New IPs are invaluable, but mostly when you have a good install base to support them.

Wow this is like travelling back in time to about a year after the launch of the PS3. We had a lot of threads questioning if Sony should just ditch the machine and many posters were convinced it would happen.

I'm aware the Vita is a different beast altogether but this brings back some memories on this website circa 2007.

He's probably counting on residual sales, long after the platform has any real relevance as Sony did keep both the PS1 and the PS2 in production long after either could have been considered significant gaming platforms. 

It's entirely possible that Nintendo will keep the Wii in production long after the Wii U debuts given the extremely low production cost, the main issue is whether 3rd party support could keep the platform alive with a slow trickle of uninspiring, low budget games that are only being developed for the Wii due to the low development costs. It seems doubtful Nintendo has any more first party hardware sellers left in the tank for the Wii as their efforts and focus should transition to the Wii U. 

So, there's a small possibility the Wii stops production a year after the Wii U launches. 

Whether the PS3 will crawl to over the 100m mark remains to be seen under such a scenario.

The Xbox 360, on the other hand, should be in essentially the same situation as the PS3 in terms of being a lower budget development platform once the Xbox 3 and PS4 debut. Production cost-wise, the 360 is already cheap. The HDD is literally the only expensive component left (not an issue for the 4GB model). 

Since a significant percentage of 360s are currently being used as media center/hubs rather than strictly gaming consoles, it would proably be a pretty bad call to drop production any time soon after the Xbox 3 debuts, meaning, 360s will keep selling.

Hardly, while it will boost vita but probably for 1-2 weeks mostly and nothing outbursting. The most succesful Miku game has 500k, and was realeased when the psp had a significant user abse. It's a nice game tough, but not really the system seller vita is hoping for. Will probably sell more than mirai since most fans were on the psp.